Hill-Side And Border Sketches: With Legends of the Cheviots And the Lammermuir
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In disguise, he proclaimed James III. ; and marching by Alnwick he was slightly reinforced, and entered Morpeth at the head of three hundred men. An abortive attempt was made on Newcastle by the insurgents ; and, in expectation of support from Cheshire and Lancashire, Forster, after that failure, moved to Hexham. On the 22d October, at Kelso, a union of a Scottish corps with the English malcontents raised their number to nearly two thou- sand ; but in their counsels there was no wisdom ; and wh...ile they wasted time in the Cheviots, General Carpenter's horsemen got close upon their rear. An invasion of Lancashire was at last resolved upon ; when five hundred Highlanders refused to cross the border, and left the field. 148 HILL-SIDE AND BORDER SKETCHES. On the 2nd November, the posse commitatus were drawn out lo oppose them ; but this rustic body ran bodily away. The rebel march to Lan- caster was unopposed ; they proclaimed the Pretender, and laid hold of the public money when they could discover it.
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